Alex used what could be a floral design for any occasion but switched up to create a Christmas Card design. She even used non-traditional colors of pinks and purples but the bold stacked die cut sentiment and all the wonderful … Read More ...
Round Up Post: Quick and Easy Christmas Card Ideas
It’s almost time, have your gotten your Christmas Cards created and in the mail? No? Well, then here are some of my favorite posts featuring quick, easy and simple cards you can create in no time.
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How to Color Realistic Poinsettia Die Cuts
You can cut out dies with colored cardstocks for beautiful looks but cutting them from white cardstock and adding color to them yourself with coloring mediums can give them an amazing realistic look. Sandra is sharing how she colored some … Read More ...
Circle Shaped Christmas Tree Card
I love the non-traditional shape of this round circle card from Lien. For the background she die cut a starburst and used an inlaid die cutting technique, filling the openings with gold metallic paper. In the center is a stamped … Read More ...
Penguin Slider Card
The ink blending over a snowflake stencil on the background of this card adds a colorful rainbow design that pops behind the black and white of the cute penguins. Lynnea used stamps and die from Miss Ink to create this … Read More ...
Sentiment Strip Christmas Tree Card
Gemma created a clever way to use long holiday sentiment stamps on this fun Christmas Tree Card. She heat embossed each one in white on red or green paper strips and stacked them in a triangle pattern with thin strips … Read More ...
Santa Pop Up Matchbook Card
The Matchbook line of products from Art Impressions allows you to create tiny pop up cards that fold up like a matchbook and slip inside a coordinating envelope. Lynn created this magical card that pop ups and folds out to … Read More ...
2 Christmas Sprigs Cards
Angela used stamps from Ellen Hutson and inks from Catherine Pooler to create these two very merry Christmas Cards. By using solid and layering stamps there’s no coloring needed and that can make for quicker card making. In her tutorial … Read More ...
Snowy Techniques with Distress Products
Tim Holtz’s Distress line has so many different mediums from glazes, pastes, sprays and more that can all be mixed with his inks and paints to create a wide array of looks. Tami decided to try putting lots of products … Read More ...
Turtle Doves Stamped Christmas Card
This lovely stamp from Woodware captures the “Two Turtle Doves” line in the 12 Days of Christmas song beautifully. The background of this card was made with yellow and green metallic ink sprays, washed out with water for a sparkly … Read More ...
Rainbow Christmas Tree Card
Lien brought the trendy rainbow look right into the holidays with this bright and colorful Rainbow Christmas Tree Card. She die cut the tree and placed the open section on the card front, used ink pads to color each cut … Read More ...
Christmas Gnomes Copic Coloring Tutorial
Elaine is sharing how she colored up a fun stamp from Stamping Bella of little gnomes in their reindeer hats using Copic markers. I love how she used white color pencil after coloring with the markers to add highlights to … Read More ...
How to Color Dry Embossing for a Christmas Card
This beautiful Christmas Card from Amy R. features a wonderful background that has texture, pattern and color. She used an embossing folder with Kraft cardstock and then Copic markers to color the raised embossed areas. I love all the splatter … Read More ...
Joyful Bird Christmas Card
I love the beautiful touches of gold throughout this Joyful Bird Card from Shauna. She used metallic ink pads to add color to the bird dies, used gold embossing for the sentiment and gold to stamp the woodgrain background. The … Read More ...
Woodland Deer Christmas Card
This sweet deer standing in a snowy woodland scene is so serene. Tallie used a masking technique, no line coloring and darker colors to bring the deer into focus and keep the background more subtle. A simple stamped sentiment is … Read More ...